Firefox Automation report – week 17/18 2014

In this post you can find an overview about the work happened in the Firefox Automation team during week 17 and 18.

Highlights

In one of the last automation reports I mentioned that we wanted to finish up the already in-progress Mozmill tests for Firefox Metro. With lots of work mostly done by Daniel we were finally able to close all the bugs as fixed. Now everyone is back on top of our new quarterly goals.

To follow our goals in educating more people about automation, we also have to reach out more on Github to actually find interested people. Therefore Henrik requested a Github mirror of our mozmill-tests repository. It’s available at https://github.com/mozilla/qa-mozmill-tests now.

As seen for the last beta and final releases of Firefox we still have a good amount of broken configuration files for ondemand update tests in Mozmill CI. Those are failures done by the person who runs those tests, but also by broken behavior in the mciconf tool. Given that, we want to put more focus on the full automation stack for update tests now. To get started we need appropriate notifications send out by Mozilla Pulse.

Individual Updates

For more granular updates of each individual team member please visit our weekly team etherpad for week 17 and week 18.

Meeting Details

If you are interested in further details and discussions you might also want to have a look at the meeting agenda, the video recording, and notes from the Firefox Automation meetings of week 17 and week 18.